Business Stories from August 5, 2019 (Change date)
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Northwestern Mutual-Chicago names Perryman director of strategic operationsAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Northwestern Mutual-Chicago has named Nikki Perryman as director of strategic operations for the Chicago-based financial planning firm. Perryman will guide the firm's mo...
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Wall Street's shady swap trades spark pushback from regulatorsAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Wall Street's push to clean up a $10 trillion corner of the derivatives market is getting poor reviews from an important audience: global financial regulators. Behind cl...
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U.S. service firms join factories with slowest growth since 2016Aug 05, 2019 1:00 am - A gauge of service industries declined in July to an almost three-year low as orders continued to cool, indicating a sluggish start to the third quarter for the biggest ...
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Luxury movie theater chain IPic files Chapter 11 bankruptcyAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Luxury movie and dining chain iPic Entertainment Inc. filed for bankruptcy in Delaware and may sell itself less than two years after its initial public offering. The Boc...
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U.S. stocks have biggest plunge of 2019 amid trade tensionAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Financial markets buckled after China escalated the trade war with the U.S., sending American stocks to the biggest drop this year and sparking a rally in global bonds. ...
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Potawatomi wants to operate Waukegan casinoAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - The Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has submitted an application to develop a Waukegan casino, the company announced Monday. A sweeping gambling expansion the Democratic-contr...
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IDEX Corp. joins S&P 500Aug 05, 2019 1:00 am - LAKE FOREST - S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced that IDEX Corp. is now a part of the S&P 500 index. IDEX will also be added to the S & P 500 GICS Industrial Machinery ...
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China lets currency plunge below 7, a decade low, after Trump adds new tariffsAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - BEIJING - China appeared to mount a counteroffensive Monday to new U.S. tariffs by allowing its tightly controlled currency to slide to an 11-year low, a move that could...
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Feder: Nine personalities added to Radio Hall of FameAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the psychosexual therapist who hosted the groundbreaking radio show "Sexually Speaking" in the 1980s, and Ryan Seacrest, the Los Angeles-based natio...
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Owner of Billy Brick's Pizza in Elgin found deadAug 05, 2019 1:00 am - Billy Brick's Wood Fired Pizza in downtown Elgin is closed until further notice after one of its owners was found dead in his upstairs apartment. The cause of death for ...